Default services enabled

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 24.08.11 10:10, Jesse Keating (jkeating at j2solutions.net) wrote:

> >> FWIW, I do think that there may be use-cases for socket activation of a
> >> database.  I'd like to support the option ... the problem is to do so
> >> without breaking existing, expected behaviors.
> > 
> > It was noted up-thread that systemd can tell you whether the underlying
> > daemon is running or not, though I guess that doesn't tell you whether
> > it's entirely in a functional state. You could do a two-stage thing:
> > check with systemd whether the daemon is running, and ping it if so?
> 
> 
> Some of the argument here is that it is difficult to do this from a
> remote host.  You'd have to engage in remote execution of software,
> e.g. using nagios nrpe to remotely (from the nagios system) execute
> commands on the database system to call systemd to check the status of
> the db.

systemctl actually knows the -H switch to access remote systems (via
ssh), but this needs a patch to dbus to actually work which I still
haven't found time to ultimately clean up for proper inclusion.

Lennart

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